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Soul Band Offers Free Music<br />
Workshop For Kids<br />
Local grammy-winning musician partners<br />
with Fox Riverside Theater Foundation to<br />
offer a FREE workshop for local students<br />
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings.<br />
Photo by Jacob Blickenstaff<br />
Grammy Award<br />
winner Gabriel<br />
Roth was raised<br />
in Riverside, and has<br />
returned to his hometown,<br />
after nearly two<br />
decades in New York,<br />
to raise his family. Roth<br />
is concerned about the<br />
financial limitations of<br />
arts education in the<br />
schools and wants to<br />
encourage others in the<br />
music and recording<br />
industries to join him in<br />
offering educational enrichment to students of all ages.<br />
He and his fellow band members, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings,<br />
will perform at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium (RMA) on <strong>November</strong><br />
6 and will present a 90-minute music workshop at 3:30pm that<br />
afternoon, prior to the show. The workshop is free, and the tour is also<br />
offering 300 tickets to the evening show at a greatly-reduced rate of $15,<br />
an offer that is limited to workshop participants and their parents.<br />
Roth is aware that some kids won’t know the band, so he is happy to<br />
talk about other musicians with whom the band has worked and even<br />
-- with some reluctance and humility -- his Grammy awards.<br />
“Some kids may not know us yet,” said Roth, “but they know names<br />
like Jay-Z and Amy Winehouse, and they know what a Grammy statuette<br />
looks like.”<br />
The Fox Riverside Theater Foundation has accepted the role of outreach<br />
coordinator for the event, and aims to bring in kids, 2nd – 12th<br />
grade, from all over the region. The Foundation works with a network<br />
of schools and non-profit organizations to distribute outreach tickets<br />
through its Students at Broadway program, which provides tickets for<br />
youth to attend shows during the Fox Performing Arts Center’s Broadway<br />
season. The Foundation staff and board members are excited to<br />
partner with the band.<br />
“This program is an example of our outreach mission,” said Executive<br />
Director Cynthia Wright. “For some of these students, it is the first<br />
opportunity to get up close and personal with specific musical instruments;<br />
for others, it is an opportunity to add fuel to the fire of their<br />
passion for music and to hear advice from successful professionals.”<br />
For more information or to arrange for your group to attend, contact the<br />
Fox Riverside Theater Foundation at 951.826.5769 or<br />
cwright@riversideca.gov. IER<br />
<strong>November</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Inland</strong> <strong>Entertainment</strong> <strong>Review</strong> 15
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